Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host John

Delin. It is March 30th, 2021. And today, again, we have another interview that I've been

wanting to have for many years. Today, we are interviewing the Mark Noggle and Mark is

most well known in the progressive and post-mormon communities for his work with quitmormon.com,

which is a website that emerged a few years ago to help people who want to resign from the

Mormon Church to expedite that process. Mark is an attorney here in Salt Lake City. Mark

Noggle, welcome to Mormon Stories podcast. Thank you, John. My pleasure to be here. It's

great to have you. Thank you. All right. So, I think it would be cool to kind of have

you give an introduction to what quitmormon is and then we'll go into your story. And

then I've got a ton of questions from our listeners that I wanted to share. Well, so let's start

from the top. Sure. Quitmormon.com is a nonprofit organization. We were founded after we realized

that this was the service we were providing was needed or wanted. I started doing these

resignations just posting them on the X-Mormon subreddit in early March 2015 and maybe

did 30 or 50. I started stapling them up on my home office wall. I was like, this is cool.

See how many I get? I'm going to get a thousand. I think first I said I want 200. And I said,

okay, I got 200. Let's get to a thousand. And I never, I mean, I thought it would take

10 years to get to a thousand. But in November 2015, the church handbook policy leak about

LGBTQ families and children came out and people were outraged. So I went back on the subreddit

and said, hey, I'm still doing these if you guys want. And I got 2000 requests in 24 hours.

So I started plugging away doing them by hand. People were very generous, offered volunteer,

volunteered to build me a website, stream mine the process. And we eventually settled

with a guy in California, his name is Ryan. He built the website. He's essentially the

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